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throw shade

slang To subtly issue insults or expressions of disapproval. I was just checking my phone for a second when Joe totally threw shade at me, saying, "Some of us don't need to be glued to our phones every minute of the day."My mom is the queen of throwing shade. She loves to say, "Is that really what you're going to wear?"

Henson clarified that Ryan Seacrest actually has her support after a lot of Twitter users assumed that that she threw shade at him at Oscars on Sunday night, amid an allegation of sexual misconduct against the TV host.

The singers' beef with each other started last year when Taylor, 25, threw shade on an anonymous singer who "tried to sabotage an entire arena tour - she tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me", which fans worked out was K-Pez.

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